would it just be a matter of time to get re-indexed (re-ranked)? Most of the new pages are indexed. I changed all my page names from some_content.htm to keyword-friendly.html. I removed the old pages and redesigned the layout for a little more of a user frienly experience. I have since seen all my pages drop like a rock from the Google SERP's. The other two are already feasting on the pages... Thoughts...
You can always do a 301 redirect from each old page to each new page and google will switch over to the new ones.
Yeah, i got the same prob when i rename my folders and pages...until i learnt that there's taht thing called 301 redirect
i don't know man. i still have the old pages in the site ( forgot to delete them ). will only delete when the search engines point to new ones. my kowledge on 301 redir is very limited. sufficient only to make it work hehe. sorry new computer!
Yes It's not redirection. If the browser sends a conditional request (Give me the page if it has been modified) and the page has NOT been modified, it sends a 304 status code and the browser uses it's cached copy. Yes, in fact, that's the purpose of it. If you use Apache read up on mod_rewrite and .htaccess rules for doing 301 redirects.
I changed all of my pages and used a 301 redirect. The new pages were picked up in just a couple of weeks and the stats did not change. 301 is the only way to go.
Thank you! I've been trying to figure out what to do about this and lo and behold the answer is here! I found this link for how to do the 301 redirect if anyone is interested. http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm Lisa